The Metaphysic of Mr. F. H. Bradley (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1330939220 ISBN 13 : 9781330939222

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Mr. Bradley smetaphysical position. As this paper will be chiefly critical, I should like to begin by saying that I am one of those who do place Mr. Bradley among the classics of Philosophy. When Appearance and Reality came out, Dr. Edward Caird said that it was the greatest thing since Kant. I should like respectfully to subscribe that dictum at least in the form there has been nothing greater since Kant It is not likely, indeed, that Mr. Bradley sactual reputation will ever place him quite in this position. The greatest and most enduring philosophical reputations will always be those of men who have not merely offered a new solution of the technical problems of Philosophy but have expounded some new and characteristic attitude towards life. Mr. Bradley apart from a few obiter dicta which in all spheres except the religious are for the most part of an extremely conservative cast has touched little on practical questions. Perhaps there fore his writings will never become quite as classical as they deserve to be. But just because I regard Mr. Bradley as a classic, I shall venture to handle him with the freedom which we all employ towards the great names of Philosophy. One is almost tempted to say that the greatest thinkers are just those who have made the greatest mistakes. We are all agreed that there are huge inconsistencies in Kant: much the same thing is beginning at least to be whispered about Hegel; and yet we do not cease to regard Kant or even Hegel as great men. I trust therefore that, if I venture to point out similar inconsistencies in Mr. Bradley, I shall not be supposed to be wanting in respectful admiration for his work. I need not say that it is only in the most inadequate way that in such a paper as this I can attempt an examination even of one or two central points in his elaborate construction if the word can be applied to a system which is
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330939220
• ISBN 13: 9781330939222
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 36
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